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package org.openqa.selenium.net;


/**
 * Provides information about the local network interfaces.
 * <p/>
 * Basically an abstraction created to allow stubbing of java.net.NetworkInterface, also soothes
 * some of the jdk1.2 idioms from this interface into jdk1.5 idioms.
 */
public interface NetworkInterfaceProvider {
  Iterable<NetworkInterface> getNetworkInterfaces();

  // TODO: Remove this whole method
  // This method should only return an iterface if it's named exactly "lo"
  NetworkInterface getLoInterface();
}
